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111. The Urban Design Reader

     Edited by Michael Larice, Elizabeth Macdonald

     Series: Routledge Urban Reader Series

     Drawing together the very best of classic and contemporary writings, this informative book illuminates the theory and practice of urban design. Forty-one generous selections include contributions from Le Corbusier and Jacobs through to Hayden and Gillham.This book provides an essential...

     Published October 11th 2006 by Routledge
112. Urban Design Futures

     Edited by Malcolm Moor, Jon Rowland

     The last decade has seen the rise of urban design which has taken a central position in the new agendas for urban regeneration and renaissance. Urban design has moved from marginality to mainstream. The principles espoused by urban designers over the past thirty years are now accepted as key to a...

     Published July 26th 2006 by Routledge
113. Cinematic Urbanism

     A History of the Modern from Reel to Real

     By Nezar AlSayyad

     The city and the cinema have become inextricably intertwined over the last century, with the identities of places becoming bound up in their cinematic portrayals. We have seen the landmarks of New York, London and Tokyo turn into iconic symbols of wealth, power, status, style and culture, and for...

     Published June 14th 2006 by Routledge
114. Inclusive Urban Design: Streets For Life

     By Elizabeth Burton, Lynne Mitchell

     This is the first book to address the design needs of older people in the outdoor environment. It provides information on design principles essential to built environment professionals who want to provide for all users of urban space and who wish to achieve sustainability in their designs. Part one...

     Published March 2nd 2006 by Routledge
115. Urban Ethic

     Design in the Contemporary City

     By Eamonn Canniffe

     Although contemporary practice in urbanism has many sources of design guidelines, it lacks theory to provide a flexible approach to the complexities of most urban situations. The author provides that theoretical framework, looking beyond the style obsession of urban makeovers to the fundamental...

     Published December 11th 2005 by Routledge
116. Crime Opportunity Profiling of Streets (COPS)

     A Quick Analysis - Rapid Implementation Approach (FB 12)

     By J Oxley

     This report is an evaluated overview of European practices for Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), and focuses on exemplars formed into a toolkit of crime and anti-social behaviour prevention strategies....

     Published November 1st 2005 by IHS BRE Press
117. Sustainable Urban Development Volume 1

     The Framework and Protocols for Environmental Assessment

     Edited by Stephen Curwell, Mark Deakin, Martin Symes

     Series: Sustainable Urban Development Series

     Based on original research, this first volume of a set of groundbreaking new books sets out a framework for analyzing sustainable urban development and develops a set of protocols for evaluating the sustainability of urban development. Protocols included are for sustainable urban planning, urban...

     Published September 6th 2005 by Routledge
118. Urban Design

     By Jon Lang

     Urban Design provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to urban design, presenting a 3 dimensional model with which to categorise the processes and products involved. It not only defines the subject, but also considers the future direction of the field and what can be learned from the...

     Published September 1st 2005 by Routledge
119. Future Forms and Design For Sustainable Cities

     Edited by Mike Jenks, Nicola Dempsey

     Concentrating on the planning and design of cities, the three sections take a logical route through the discussion from the broad considerations at regional and city scale, to the larger city at high and lower densities through to design considerations on the smaller block scale. Key design issues...

     Published July 28th 2005 by Routledge
120. Urban Housing Forms

     By Jingmin Zhou, Ian Colquhoun

     Over three-quarters of the world's population live in cities where the need for affordable urban housing of good design is vital to the quality of urban living. Zhou and Colquhoun look at a wide variety of solutions to this urban design problem showing that understanding of the important design...

     Published June 15th 2005 by Routledge